These are going to be $2000/64GB when they come out and they're not dropping in price any time soon after that.

Surely you're not serious. The entire point of this tech is to allow deeper market penetration because it's so cheap to manufacture. There would be no point in charging more per GB than SSDs when their profit margin could be so much higher with this.

Sure, it could potentially be priced highly purely from a performance perspective, but that would be pointless because nobody would buy them. I just don't see them opting to sit on something so profitable in an attempt to drum up demand, when everybody would just as soon buy an SSD if it costs less. I mean it's not like SSDs don't perform well. To the extreme contrary actually.

Surely you're not serious. The entire point of this tech is to allow deeper market penetration because it's so cheap to manufacture. There would be no point in charging more per GB than SSDs when their profit margin could be so much higher with this.

Sure, it could potentially be priced highly purely from a performance perspective, but that would be pointless because nobody would buy them. I just don't see them opting to sit on something so profitable in an attempt to drum up demand, when everybody would just as soon buy an SSD if it costs less. I mean it's not like SSDs don't perform well. To the extreme contrary actually.

These are likely headed to servers first. We have to see if they can ramp up production well enough to make it feasible for the consumer market.

Well they'll obviously be tested first. The point is the tech is very cheap to manufacture if it does make it to market.

IBM is a server/enterprise company. As IBM stated, "With a combination of speed, endurance, non-volatility and density, PCM can enable a paradigm shift for enterprise IT and storage systems within the next five years."

Hopefully we can get inexpensive PCM in five years, but I am not so sure. IBM will want to recoup all their R&D costs once the product is released to the enterprise market.

And thats just boot ups, which no one REALLY cares about here. If these guys are what they are said to be, it could mean an OVERALL system performance increase of several orders of magnitude. Processors, ram, and gpus are all wicked fast, but processing can nly go so fast when everything is held back by snail-speed IO